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Patent GB-190617327-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Cleaning and Repairing Outfits.
Inventor: SEBALD ALBERT
Filed: 1906-08-01
Granted: 1907-05-30
Abstract: 17,327. Sebald, A. Sept. 8, 1905, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Equipments.-A cleaning and repairing equipment for army use consists of a portable brush, Fig. 2, the stock having a compartment c to hold cleaning and sewing materials. The hollow stock is closed by the back of a brush f, which has edge pieces g to grip the edges of the stock. The second compartment which is thus formed between the partition b and the back of the external brush is filled by a shoe-polishing brush e. The brush stock is closed at the top by a sliding cover h, Fig. 3, which has a keyhole slot for holding uniform buttons while being cleaned.
Patent GB-190619991-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Design and Construction of Safety Pins-Brooch Pins and Fastenings for the same and the like.
Inventor: ASHBURNHAM CECIL NEWTON
Filed: 1906-09-08
Granted: 1907-01-17
Abstract: 19,991. Ashburnham, C. N. Sept. 8. No Patent granted (Sealing fee not paid). Safety-pins.-The shield consists of an open tapering spiral D, into which the point of the pin is inserted by twisting the pin round the locps of the spiral. The spiral may be covered with a sheath. This construction may also be applied to brooch catches.
Patent GB-190620290-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Compositions for the Coating and Treatment of Fibrous, Textile and other Material
Inventor: MIKULIN MARIE LOUISE
Filed: 1906-09-12
Granted: 1907-05-02
Abstract: 20,290. Mikulin, M. L. Sept. 12. Canvases.-A composition for coating and treating fibrous, textile, or other material, and stated to be capable of standing variations of temperature or exposure, consists of rye-meal paste to which are added glue, alum, and boiled linseed oil, mixed with an equal amount of chalk or pipeclay mixed with water. The coated surface can be smoothed and painted or polished. The composition is applicable to artists' canvases.
Patent GB-190624515-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Non-skid Apparatus for Motor and other Carriages
Inventor: MCEVOY CHARLES ALFRED
Filed: 1906-11-02
Granted: 1907-10-17
Abstract: 24,515. McEvoy, C. A. Nov. 2. Slipping of wheels, preventing.-One or more auxiliary wheels F, preferably two, are trailed at the rear of a motor or other road vehicle by means of an arm E universally jointed to the vehicle body, so that on the occurrence of side-slip a stop fixed to the vehicle is brought into contact with the arm E, the inertia of the trailing device checking further side-slip. Two stops C are placed near the pivot end of the arm E, and preferably on an extension of a plate A to which the arm E is pivoted, holes D being provided to permit adjustment of the stops; in a modification, only one stop, passing through a slot in the arm E, is used. As shown in Fig. 3, the plate carrying the stops has extensions K through which pass two rods N, connected to collars M on the arm E by short lengths of chain P, springs being interposed between the brackets K and nuts X on the ends of the rods. This arrangement makes the pressure of the vehicle on the trailer more gradual. The trailer has preferably a screw-joint J to allow it to tilt on passing over irregularities in the road. It is stated in the Provisional Specification that the trailer may consist of a weight suspended from the vehicle out of contact with the ground ; also that arms may be attached to the trailer to engage the vehicle body, instead of the stops being fixed to the carriage.
Patent GB-190701678-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Insulating Materials
Inventor: CONNOLLY JAMES
Filed: 1907-01-22
Granted: 1907-11-28
Abstract: 1678. Connolly, J. Jan. 22. Pitch.-In insulating-compositions such as those described in Specification No. 3345, A.D. 1906, [Abridgment Class Electricity, Conducting &c.], the stearin-pitch is dissolved in carbon tetrachloride, carbon bisulphide, benzol, coal-tar oil, or other solvent, and to three parts approximately of this solution is added 1 part of a solution formed by dissolving 1 part of caustic soda in 5 to 8 parts of water. The mixture is well agitated and allowed to settle, and the pitch solution separated. Sometimes the pitch is heated to a temperature of 150- 200‹ C. previous to the above treatment.
Patent GB-190702863-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Braking and Transmission Mechanism for Motor Vehicles.
Inventor: BOULT ALFRED JULIUS
Filed: 1907-02-05
Granted: 1907-09-19
Abstract: 2863. Boult, A. J., [Soc. A. Darracq et Cie]. Feb. 5. Motor road vehicles.-Relates to the arrangement of a brake drum in connexion with change-speed gearing combined with the differential gearing on the axle. The box o, carrying the planetary pinions of the differential gear, is geared directly by the wheels m, n to the countershaft l, and is driven from the bevel-wheel a, either directly, or through the medium of the countershaft. According to the invention, the brake drum u is arranged on the countershaft l, preferably outside the gear casing, so that the breaking effect is always transmitted directly to the differential gear instead of being transmitted through the gear-changing wheels.
Patent GB-190707181-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electric Motor Control Systems for Towing and the like Systems
Filed: 1907-03-25
Granted: 1908-03-19
Abstract: 7181. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. March 25. Distributing.-Electric motors, particularly those used for driving winches for towing barges and for raising or lowering ships' boats, are controlled in such a way that if the hawser is lengthened, as it should be in the event of sudden shock, the torque of the motor is increased so that the excess rope can be wound in, and conversely if the hawser is unduly shortened, for instance in the event of the tug being slowed down, the pull is decreased so that the tow rope may be payed out to its normal length. This is done by arranging a generator F to supply the winch-driving motor D, the fields f of the generator being connected across the constant-potential mains E through a resistance G, which can however be cut out by the device h, h<1>. The solenoid h<1> is connected across the mains E through resistances I, J, the latter of which is used only for the initial adjustment, the former being varied by a screw-and-nut contact K in such a manner that, as the rope B is payed out, the resistance I increases so as to decrease the current in the winding h<1>. As a result, the cut-out H requires a larger current from the generator F before it can operate, and therefore the motor D acquires a more powerful torque ; conversely, if the rope B is wound in, the current through the winding h<1> is increased, and so the cut-out H is operated for a smaller current from the generator and thus the motor has a diminished torque.
Patent GB-190721060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Refining Crude Petroleum and other Hydrocarbons by Distillation.
Inventor: MCMULLEN WALLACE
Filed: 1907-09-23
Granted: 1908-01-09
Abstract: 21,060. McMullen, W. Sept. 23. Distilling oils.-Relates to a modification of the process of distilling oils, described in Specification No. 22,395, A.D. 1906, and consists in distilling oils, from which the lighter constituents have already been removed, by heating the oil to a temperature below that at which it could ordinarily distil, and passing through it in abundant quantity and so as to wash the oil evenly, a gaseous body containing little or no free or uncombined oxygen, the gas being of a temperature lower than that of the oil, say atmospheric temperature. Flue gases when free from oxygen, and after they have been freed from dust &c. and cooled, are used for this purpose. The cooling may be effected by using the gases for preliminarily heating the oil. Air or flue gases, freed from oxygen by passing them through incandescent coke &c., may also be used. The lighter oils may be removed by means of a current of air as described in the abovementioned Specification. The vapours may be condensed by passing them through water or oil.
Patent GB-190724120-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the Mounting and Operating of Endless Bands
Inventor: CARVER THOMAS ALBERT BRIGGS
Filed: 1907-10-31
Granted: 1908-11-02
Abstract: 24,120. Carver, T. A. B. Oct. 31. Kinematographs. - An endless index tape for weaving machinery is coiled around two parallel drums b, c. Within the space between these drums is a flanged guide pulley d so placed that, when the band is uncoiled, the inner layer is deflected clear of the coiled band. The band then passes to the mechanism and is led by the guides g, h back over the outer layer of the coiled band. In the Provisional Specification the invention is stated to be applicable to kinematograph films.
Patent GB-190724396-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Calcium.
Inventor: COWPER-COLES SHERARD OSBORN
Filed: 1907-11-04
Granted: 1908-10-29
Abstract: 24,396. Coles, S. O. Cowper-. Nov. 4. Furnaces for calcium.-Apparatus for the electrolytic production of calcium comprises a furnace a with grates a<1> and flues a<2>, and vessels b, c, e set in the cover f. The calcium salt, preferably the chloride, is dried in the vessel band passes thence through a conduit d regulated by a sliding door b<1> into the vessel c, where it is fused and from which it is delivered as required to the electrolytic cell c by a pipe e<1>, the flow being suitably regulated. The cell e contains an anode g of fused lead or the like, and cathode disks i carried by spindles j. A pyrometer r dips into the electrolyte.
Patent GB-190724853-A (GB)
Title: Device for Repairing Corsets.
Inventor: MENZIES ELLEN KEILLOR
Filed: 1907-11-09
Granted: 1908-08-27
Abstract: 24,853. Menzies, E. K. Nov. 9. Stays or stiffeners.- Two lengths of steel 1, 2, separated by a distancepiece and held by a rivet 3, are used to repair broken corset steels or to strengthen bent ones. The broken ends of the steel are inserted between the plates 1, 2 as far as the distance - piece, as shown in Fig. 1, and are held by sewing the surrounding cloth about the joint. One of the strips 1, 2 may be wider than the other, for joining steels with studs 5. Specification No. 4397, A.D. 1895, is referred to.
Patent GB-190727370-A (GB)
Inventor: NOWILL ERNEST
Filed: 1907-12-11
Granted: 1908-10-22
Abstract: 27,370. Nowill, E. Dec. 11. Cigar cutters etc.; smokers' combination articles.- In a cigar-cutter or piercer of that class in which a ring or bell-shaped device is provided with one or more internally projecting knives or cutters, and which is adapted to be combined with pocket-knives, pendants, &c., the cutters a' are stamped out of a strip a of thin steel, preferably pen steel, before or .after the strip is bent into circular form. Fig. 7 shows the cigar-cutter applied to a pocket-knife, apertures being formed in the scales b and metal linings c. If the scales are of metal, the edges of the cigar cutter may take into annular grooves formed on the inside of the scales round the apertures. Figs. 11 and 13 show the cutter arranged as a pendant or trinket. The tongues a<1> may be of any shape and number, and may be inclined at an angle to the axis of the cigar cutter.
Patent GB-190727547-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Brake Apparatus, particularly applicable to Railway Wagon Brakes.
Inventor: BOWLES GEORGE BARKER
Filed: 1907-12-13
Granted: 1908-02-27
Abstract: 27,547. Bowles, G. B. Dec. 13. Brakes.-The object is to effect the automatic adjustment of the brake blocks of railway wagons. The hand-lever a, Fig. 1, is mounted loosely on the tumbler spindle c<1>. The tumbler c is of the usual form. To the spindle c<1> is fixed a ratchet quadrant g which is engaged by two pawls, one f fixed to the vee-hanger e, and the other h fixed to the handlever a and held in contact with the quadrant by means of a spring. When the lever a is pressed down, the brakes, which normally hang clear of the wheel rims, are applied through the engagement of the pawl h with the quadrant g. In the movement, the pawl f travels a part only of the way up the incline of the next tooth, the teeth being designed to ensure this, the length of the incline being greater than the normal clearance. As soon as the wear of the brake blocks is sufficient to cause extra movement to the extent of allowing the pawl f to pass the extreme end of the inclined surface of the tooth upon which it has been riding, the pawl falls into the next space and only a limited return movement, due to the undercutting of the teeth, is allowed. The pawl h therefore rides up the incline of the tooth and falls into the next space. The following modifications are described : In Figs. 3 and 4 is shown a ratchet a' upon the boss of the hand-lever ; it replaces the pawl h, and the teeth of the ratchet engage with corresponding teeth g<1> upon the quadrant g, a spring j being provided to maintain the clutches in contact. Applied to power-brake apparatus, as shown in Fig. 5, in which the brakes are applied by the cylinder A by means of a lever k keyed to the spindle c<1>, a ratchet bar l replaces the quadrant, and the fixed pawl f<1> is attached to the support of the sliding bar l. In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the power connexion is attached to the lever k<1>, mounted freely on the spindle c<1> and carrying a pawl h corresponding to the pawl in Fig. 1. The automatic readjustment in all these modifications is the same as in the form described.
Patent GB-190728433-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Acetylene Generators for Lamps and the like.
Inventor: ROSS JOHN HOWARD
Filed: 1907-12-27
Granted: 1908-12-10
Abstract: 28,433. Ross, J. H. Dec. 27. Lift valves; safety-valves.- A lift valve adapted to act as a safetyvalve for an acetylene generator is normally operated by a push. To hold the valve open, the push is raised against the action of a spring until a pin is clear of a slot. when the spindle may be rotated so that the pin rests on top of the casing. The water inlet valve, shown in Fig. 3, is opened against the action of a spring 35 by the gas pres- ,sure allowing a gas-holder to rest on a plate 34 fixed to the valve spindle. The valve seat has an upstanding pipe 9 and the valve a corresponding pipe 5, so that either the upper end of the pipe 5 seats against a fixed seating or the lower closed end of the pipe 5 seats against the end of the pipe 9. Fig. 2 shows a similar valve actuated by a float.
Patent GB-190801448-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Compressing Chaff to Form Bales.
Inventor: BENZ-WEGMANN ERNST
Filed: 1908-01-21
Granted: 1909-01-21
Abstract: 1448. Wegmann, E. Benz-. Jan. 21. Baling-presses.-In a machine for compressing chaff into bales, a tube b, Fig 1, is fitted with a movable bottom c fixed to slides d provided with balance weights i. The chaff is placed in the tube b, and a piston k attached to a screw l is forced down until two spring bolts f engage notches in the slides d. The piston k is then raised, carrying with it the slides d and bottom c. The compressed chaff is thus held under compression between the piston k and the bottom c and is drawn upwards out of the tube b. It may then be bound and released from the press. Two such presses may be operated in conjunction with one another, as shown. In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the chaff is placed in a tube b and is compressed by a piston c against an upper piston x. When the compression is sufficient, the piston x is automatically drawn upwards in unison with the piston c, and the bale is thus pushed clear of the tube b, as shown on the right of Fig. 3. It can then be bound up as usual. ...
Patent GB-190805943-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Frame Filter Presses.
Inventor: FEIX ERNST
Filed: 1908-03-17
Granted: 1908-08-20
Abstract: 5943. Feix, E. March 17. Filter-presses.-The combined length of a hollow screw-spindle a of a press, and of a pressure rod b, which telescopes within it, can be adjusted by means of a split ring f, which fits into any one of a number of recesses e on the rod and is tightened against the end of the spindle by a cap. The screw nut i is split and can be tightened against the spindle by a lever handle h. When the nut is loose, the spindle and rod can be moved longitudinally by means of a hand-wheel and toothed wheel k, which supports the spindle and moves it like a rack.
Patent GB-190806363-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and in Means or Arrangements for Hardening and Aerating Water.
Inventor: CANDY FRANK
Filed: 1908-03-21
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 6363. Candy, F. March 21. Drawings to Specification. Water, hardening; water, purifying; filters.-In subjecting water to the action of a material containing carbonate of lime, such as chalk or limestone, in order to harden, neutralize, or render it alkaline, the water is distributed over a bed of the material by means of a travelling distributor preferably of the rotary type, such as is described in Specification No. 22,923, A.D. 1901. The bed is preferably arranged within a solid confining wall, but a wall with perforations or openings for the passage of air may be used ; or the wall may be formed of blocks of the material laid loosely without cementing material. The bed is preferably formed of a layer of smaller fragments interposed between two layers of larger ones. Light may be excluded by means of a top layer of finely divided material. The water is filtered previous to this treatment, the filter described in Specification No. 22,570, A.D. 1903, being preferably used. The treated liquid may also be filtered.
Patent GB-190810104-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling Systems for Mines and the like.
Inventor: PLUMB GEORGE THOMAS
Filed: 1908-05-09
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 10,104. Plumb, G. T. May 9. Signals, electric.-In a signalling-system for a mine or the like, each signal transmitter is provided with a key-operated switch which completes the signal circuit through a separate wire to operate an indicator to assure the receiver that the signal is authorized. The line x-x represents the surface level and y-y the first level of a mine. The wires 1 are the usual signaling connexions. A key 4 operates the bell signals 3, whether the switch 6 is to the right or left, but when the switch is placed on the right-hand contact by means of a key carried by the skip-man, the circuit is completed through a line-wire 5 and an electro-magnet 7, which has an indicating-armature 8. The line-wire 5 may be replaced by an earth return.
Patent GB-190813772-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Electrically Controlled Gas Valves
Inventor: BENARD PAUL
Filed: 1908-06-29
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 13,772. Benard, P. July 12, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Lighting and extinguishing gas.-An electricallycontrolled valve for gas burners comprises a box j, Fig. 8, having two slots l, m adapted to register with two corresponding slots g, h, Fig. 7, formed in a horse-shoe shaped chamber a, on which the box j is capable of partial rotation about the pin i. The slot g communicates with the gas inlet e and the slot h with the outlet f, the inlet and outlet being isolated from each other by an internal partition. The working faces of the valve are kept in contact by an adjustable spring k, Fig. 3. The box j is formed with armatures n, o, operating in conjunction with two electro-magnets p, q, which can be separately energized to operate the valve in one direction or the other. The box is also formed at the ends with inclined parts, as shown, upon which a spring knob or plunger r, operated by hand, can act in the event of failure of the electric current.
Patent GB-190815222-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Door Springs and Checks
Inventor: LILLY JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-07-18
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 15,222. Lilly, J. July 18. Door checks; door-closing apparatus.-Relates to door springs and checks which are let into the floor, more particularly to the means for adjusting the spring, controlling the check action, and operatively connecting the springs to the main spindle. The lower end of the door 21 is provided with a squared recess with which engages the square part 20 of the spindle 19. The spindle is carried in a bearing 22 in a detachable bracket 23, and in a bearing in the bottom of the containing box 18. The lower end of the spindle carries rollers 24 which act on a swinging tumbler 25 mounted on a pivot pin 27. A projection 25<a> on the tumbler 25 bears against the end of a rod 36, which is pivotally mounted at 35 in an arm 34 projecting from a. bridge-piece 32. On the bridge are formed teats 33 which engage the ends of compression springs 28, the other ends of which are supported on teats 29 formed on the lower end of the rocking plate-like lever 30. The upper end of the lever 30 loosely engages a gap in the upper edge of the box 18, and its inclination is adjusted .by the screw pin 31. Another projection 25<b> is also formed on the tumbler 25 and carries a screw pin 25<c>, which bears against a pivoted tumbler 37 mounted on the pivot pin 27. The tumbler 37 is connected to the plunger 40 of the check cylinder 41 by the rod 38. The cylinder has an air or oil admission valve 42 and an adjustable outlet valve passage 43. A cam 47 on the spindle 19 works against surfaces 45 on the tumbler 37. If the door is opened a little more than ninety degrees the roller 24 passes beyond its centre on the tumbler 25, and is there locked since in this position the springs cannot move the spindle. When applied to a door opening in one direction only, a single spring 48 is used of which one end is supported as before and the other by a bridge-like pivoted lever 53. This lever has an extended arm 54 which is operatively connected to. the tumbler lever 55. In this construction the tumbler lever is pivoted at 56, and only one roller 58 is used on the spindle 19. The extension 25<b> of the tumbler 25 is replaced by an extended arm 62, of which one end engages a projection 63 on the tumbler 55 and the other end engages a projection 64 on the check tumbler 59. The arm 62 is divided and has a selfadjusting spring 62<a>. The rollers 24 may be pivotally carried by levers 19<a> so as to be rigidly carried forward in their working direction, but having a certain amount of freedom of movement in the opposite direction. The check cylinder 41 and conneeting-rod may be dispensed with.
Patent GB-190820396-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of and Apparatus for Developing Exposed Photographic Plates and Films.
Inventor: TRUESTEDT FELIX
Filed: 1908-09-28
Granted: 1909-09-28
Abstract: 20,396. Tr³stedt, F., Wegener, J., and Wegener, Sept. 28. Trays, dishes, &c.-In daylight developing-tanks which are filled and emptied by an inlet in the bottom of the tank, an ordinary solution-storage bottle e with tubes r, s and connected as shown with the inlet tube u, is used for filling and emptying. For emptying the tank the bottle is inverted and lowered below the level of the inlet u. The developing-tank a stands in an overflow trough v, and is covered by the cover h which makes a lighttight connexion with the trough v, and pipe u.